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Help employees get the most from their health benefits — with Castlight Health. Their health benefits platform helps employees make smarter healthcare decisions. Castlight Health’s software recommends and shares only information, processes and tasks that are relevant to the employee. This gives employees the information they need, when they need it — without overwhelming them with unnecessary clutter.

Over the last several years, marketplace lenders have popped up to fill this significant gap between small business borrowers and access to credit. They typically offer fast approval turn-around – delivering requested funds in hours or days vs. weeks.

Around the globe, organizations in every industry sector are struggling to attract, retain, and develop talent. But few organizations are prepared to successfully overcome those challenges. Download a new learning and talent framework to learn how to create a sustainable source of talent, and to overcome skill gaps. In it you’ll find:
- What fundamental shifts you need to make to better compete for talent
- How to exploit technology for smarter HCM and L&D strategies
- Why learning and talent management processes must be tightly integrated
Download "The Skillsoft Learning and Talent Maturity Framework.

Today’s factory intelligence is the collaborative orchestration of people and machines. By blending intelligence from multiple sources, factories are truly becoming smarter. But it’s not just about the machines. Rather, people are improving machines through a true partnership that turns human experience into smarter machines.
This shift marks a re?orientation to a thought process that’s more natural to people.
After decades of working with 2D blueprints, designs and dimensioned drawings, factory intelligence leverages 3D models that are easier for people to comprehend and use. Plus, many people find more satisfaction in intelligent factory work that challenges them to manage relationships among machines, rather than repeatedly working on a single piece in a line. In smarter factories, people direct machines to adjust for shifting customer requirements and market demands.

In this book, you look at how the Smarter Process approach helps you create a more customer-centric organization. You discover how four major technologies — mobile, cloud computing, Big Data, and social collaboration — are disrupting the way you do business and how you can work through the challenges.

The Smarter Process platform is IBM’s solution for reinventing business operations in a way that infuses every process with intelligence and expertise to deliver greater customer centricity, which in turn fuels top-line growth.

This paper explores why your business needs the latest operational decision management (ODM) solutions to help turn data insights into action. Discover how IBM Operational Decision Manager software and the IBM Business Process Manager platform work together to: *Recognize patterns that suggest opportunity or risk *Create and shape business events by automating decisions *Bring more dimension and precision to decision making by applying analytics to big data *Help you implement the right business processes by understanding data in context.

The Smarter Process platform is IBM’s solution for reinventing business operations in a way that infuses every process with intelligence and expertise to deliver greater customer centricity, which in turn fuels top-line growth.

In This Paper
• Smarter spend management is lacking in most organizations, largely due to the tools being used to manage their procurement processes
• Oracle Procurement Cloud combines cloud, best-of-breed functionality, and native connectivity
• Deploying Oracle Procurement Cloud can resolve pain points with transactional and strategic procurement

The Smarter Process platform is IBM’s solution for reinventing
business operations in a way that infuses every process
with intelligence and expertise to deliver greater customer
centricity, which in turn fuels top-line growth. It incorporates
Business Process Management, Case Management,
Operational Decision Management and Process Analytics,
along with Process Discovery and Design with an objective of
ensuring that customers find it easy to do business and that
every interaction includes positive touch points.
Within the context of this new imperative, accessing cloud
efficiencies, leveraging mobile for greater engagement,
mining big data for insights, and enhancing customer
relationships via social media, are proving to be critical and
interrelated strategies.

Successful financial management really comes down to providing employees with the tools they need to make the most informed decisions at any given time. Accurate forecasts, budgets, and plans lead to smarter investments. In this Aberdeen research report, top performers are found to provide their employees with the tools that enable success, in addition to exhibiting the following characteristics:
• Predictive
• Informed
• Efficient
• Agile
Download the report to find out how Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions can help you improve your processes and turn your manufacturing business into a financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting leader.

With this book, you find out how a unified CCR process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. You also discover features of the ideal CCR solution and learn what to look for in the selection process. And, you come to understand the close/consolidate/report process and how integrated CCR solutions enhance internal controls and provide better insight into business performance. Find out how a unified CCR process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. Download this book to discover features of ideal CCR solution and learn what to consider in the selection process.

While a business case is all about the numbers, knowing how and when to push the proposal through the approval process requires an understanding of the psychology behind how proposals are selected and funded. Learn the tools and strategies to develop a business case and gain approval.

As the planet becomes smarter, IT increasingly becomes a centrapart of business and a constant part of our lives. Organizations use complex solutions to extract more value from their data, business processes and other key investments.

Expense reporting touches every part of your business from business travel and utilities to office supplies, coffee with clients and more. This guide will get you on the path to smarter expense reporting. Learn how to stop just processing your expenses and start managing spend and cash flow.

The product development ecosystem is complex, as it entails nearly every area of an enterprise — each with its own set of tools, files and needs. Enterprises need the right solutions to untangle the web of data management and enable a smarter approach to manufacturing. This article discusses how distributed data management, now an integrated part of SOLIDWORKS Manage, stores and regulates design data to streamline processes and improve the movement of information.

There’s growing, industry-wide pressure to integrate more software and electronics into products. In fact, innovative products are now critical to the success of future-thinking companies — 52 percent of companies developing smart products fear they’ll lose market share unless they continue to make products smarter. There are, however, unique challenges that come with perfecting development processes and managing complexities. This e-book, by research firm Tech-Clarity, outlines steps to successfully transforming your products into smart, connected systems.

The Role of Additive Manufacturing in Production of the Future
Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of adding layers of material — most commonly plastics or resins, and increasingly metals — to produce products according to precise
digital plans. With AM, products are produced using
only the material necessary, therefore minimizing scrap.
Modern digital technology is transforming every industry, including manufacturing. Yet in The Rise of Smart Operations, a survey of machinery manufacturers conducted by UPS and IDC, roughly one-half of the respondents said their digital or “smart” operations were lagging the competition or were at a significant disadvantage. Manufacturers will also find practical solutions they can consider implementing today to incorporate smarter operations in their production processes of the future.

Today we share information faster and farther than ever before. Despite this, 42% of people make decisions based on wrong information every week. This brochure from IBM® will show you how to join the smart revolution and create a more productive, efficient and sustainable world. Learn more.

Join Governing magazine and the Smarter Cities Initiative team as we explore the benefits of smart technology to better automate the process of preserving, enhancing and managing revenue streams while driving down costs.

With this book, you find out how a unified CCR process gives leaders timely and accurate insights to make smarter decisions. You also discover features of the ideal CCR solution and learn what to look for in the selection process.

Many marketers are aware of the sobering statistic that up to 90% of content created for sales support is ignored by the field and more than 74% of sellers re-write/create their own sales collateral. Watch this on-demand webinar to get tips for creating and delivering content when and where your sales team needs it most.

Find out how the role technologies such as Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Optimization software will play in helping Healthcare organizations of all types and sizes build smarter processes that allow you to adapt to change faster, overcome process silos and improve patient care and safety.

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